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Editorial—Taken Back by the Election

The election is over, the results as was suggested would happen by the previous polls, and Danielle Smith and the UCP have retained a majority government, albeit a much smaller one.  While it would have taken less than 2000 votes in crucial ridings to send things the other way, our first past the post system… Read more »

AU-Thentic Events

Library Chat Tues, Jun 6, 10:30 am to 2:30 pm MDT Online Hosted by AU Library www.athabascau.ca/library/index.html No pre-registration needed; access through chat box on home page Library Chat Wed, Jun 7, 10:30 am to 2:30 pm MDT Online Hosted by AU Library www.athabascau.ca/library/index.html No pre-registration needed; access through chat box on home page Vaccine… Read more »

Student Sizzle—Following What’s Hot!

AthaU Facebook Group Ain’t over until it’s over.  Reponses to a post confirm that courses end on the final day of the month, no matter whether the month has 28, 29, 30 or 31 days.  Always the final day, by the end of that day (Mountain Time.) Discord Broken link.  A student experiences delays getting… Read more »

Scholarship of the Week!

Scholarship name:  AU First Nation Colleges Student Awards Sponsored by:  AU Deadline:  July 1, 2023 Potential payout:  Tuition costs for three, 3-credit undergraduate AU courses Eligibility restriction:  Applicants must be students who attend or have attended a First Nation College (preference given to students from Red Crow College), be a current AU undergrad student, have… Read more »

Vintage Voice!

We’ll overlook the fact that June 2nd’s National Fish and Chip Day is sponsored in the UK by the National Edible Oil Distributors Association (yuck, too much info!) and instead just lift the basket with a pair of digestible articles. Breaking bread.  Janice Behrens learns that rigidly sticking to her diet leaves an empty feeling… Read more »

Scholarship of the Week!

Scholarship name:  AU First Nation Colleges Student Awards Sponsored by:  AU Deadline:  July 1, 2023 Potential payout:  Tuition costs for three, 3-credit undergraduate AU courses Eligibility restriction:  Applicants must be students who attend or have attended a First Nation College (preference given to students from Red Crow College), be a current AU undergrad student, have… Read more »

Summer Adventures in Vancouver and Nanaimo

I spent a weekend recently in Vancouver and Nanaimo, BC.  It was the first weekend BC trip I had made for a long time, since pre-COVID.  As an Albertan, weekend adventures in BC are the perfect getaway because they are so convenient.  The plane ride is only about an hour and a half.  The coastal… Read more »

10 Skills to Go From Housewife to Domestic Goddess

Is it anti-feminist to want to be a domestic goddess or a housewife?  Not when we throw in skills like IT and home repair.  And not when we don’t have to be female to gain the status, either.  All we need is the intense desire to be the best homebody ever. But it’s not enough… Read more »

A Life Saving Perspective

I write this flabbergasted.  Once again my feminist course, this time contemporary theory, shows disability to be something that one tries to avoid or escape, etc..  This time using how a woman who wanted to commit assisted suicide wasn’t facing discrimination because she wasn’t allowed to have someone help her practice individual autonomy with life… Read more »

The case of Karamjeet Kaur and 700 should-be Canadians

Writing about the case of Karamjeet Kaur and 700 should-be Canadians was a very unpleasant experience.  Worst of all, it seemed as though journalists, immigration lawyers, and academics with expertise in immigration all seemed to accept the narrative that this was a bogus admissions letter issue, and it seemed as though we would be poised… Read more »